Neurobehavioral Core for Rehabilitation Research (NCRR)

Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Research, Parnassus
Contact: Sandra Canchola 415-476-5045 CancholaS@ptrehab.ucsf.edu

• Beam Balance Test - an animal is placed on a narrow beam, the ability to maintain balance and/or traverse the beam is evaluated.
• CatWalk (Noldus) - an automated gait analysis system that allows easy quantitation of a large number of locomotor parameters using a walkway crosing which is videoed and recorded on the computer.
• Contextual cued fear conditioner -- test of associative learning with neutral and aversive stimuli
• Crawley Three-Chamber Test
• Elevated Plus Maze (2) - (EPM) is a rodent model of anxiety that is used as a screening test for putative anxiolytic or anxiogenic compounds and as a general research tool in neurobiological anxiety research.
• Elevated Zero Maze (2) - (EZM) is a rodent model of anxiety that is used as a screening test for putative anxiolytic or anxiogenic compounds and as a general research tool in neurobiological anxiety research.
• EthoVision (Noldus) - Video tracking system for automation of behavioral experiments
• Inclined Plane - an animal is placed on a platform that can be raised to varying angles.
• Kinder Open Field (2) - The open field test (OFT) is a commonly used qualitative and quantitative measure of general locomotor activity and willingness to explore in rodents.
• Morris Water Maze-is a behavioral procedure widely used in behavioral neuroscience to study spatial learning and memory.
• Paw Thermal Stimulation (San Diego Instruments) - Also known as Hargreaves test, a thermal stimulus is generated by a focused light bulb. Hindpaws are stimulated, the response to these stimuli consists of withdrawal. Latency is recorded.
• PhenoTyper (Noldus) -- observe and track animals in a home-cage with a controlled environment
• Radial arm water maze -- study sptial learning and memory